Did you know that 3kg of your body weight is solely due to the millions of bacteria that live in your intestines? Or that bacteria can live everywhere on Earth apart from Antarctica? Or that the bacteria that cause tuberculosis infect a third of the world's population?
TypesofBacteria is a complete information resource about bacteria that includes these fascinating facts as part of a unique exploration of the hidden world of bacteria.

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How Many Types of Bacteria Are There?:
In 1998, an American microbiologist worked out that the number of bacteria on Earth at that time was five million trillion trillion. This is… [244 views in Feb]

How and When Were Bacteria Discovered?:
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch cloth merchant, was the first person to see bacteria. During the 1660s he started to grind glass lenses to… [84 views in Feb]

Bacteria That Infect Plants:
Most people think of bacterial diseases affecting animals and humans but plants can also succumb to bacterial infections. Bacteria can enter through cuts… [58 views in Feb]